Engineering People & Process Leader

Longshot Systems; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

10% matched pension

Private healthcare

Long term illness insurance

Gym membership

Job summary

Longshot Systems is seeking an Engineering Manager to own people and process for our growing engineering team in London. You’ll supervise hiring, development, reviews and cross‑team standards, while enabling technical leads to focus on technical work.

With 40+ engineers and rapid growth, you’ll shape onboarding, progression, and calibration across teams, partnering with the CTO and tech leads to keep practices consistent in our hybrid, London‑based setup.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a people manager of engineers (not just a tech lead).
• Track record of owning engineering hiring at scale, from funnel design to interviews.
• Experience leading and scaling an engineering organisation of 30–50+ engineers.
• Fluent written and spoken English with strong communication skills.
• Comfortable operating without enterprise HR/IT/procurement support.

Responsibilities

• Recruitment: own the engineering hiring funnel end to end, including role design and interview processes.
• Line management and progression: own twice‑yearly reviews, progression framework and calibration.
• Delivery: diagnose slowdowns, maintain focus on product work, provide metrics to catch issues early.
• Engineering standards: push for higher performance and scalable processes as the team grows.
• Developer experience: invest in developer tooling and evaluate new tools and approaches.
• Engineering operations: own cloud spend, SaaS estate, licensing, onboarding for technical staff.

Skills

Software engineering

People management

Hiring at scale

Team scaling

English communication

Job description

Longshot Systems is seeking an Engineering Manager to own people and process for our growing engineering team in London. You’ll supervise hiring, development, reviews and cross‑team standards, while enabling technical leads to focus on technical work.

With 40+ engineers and rapid growth, you’ll shape onboarding, progression, and calibration across teams, partnering with the CTO and tech leads to keep practices consistent in our hybrid, London‑based setup.